Guitón Onofre. El pícaro perdido

Comedy directed by Luis d'Ors, starring Pepe Viyuela and Sara Águeda, adapting the picaresque novel that Gregorio González wrote in 1604 about the life of a picaro of the Golden Age. It is staged at the Teatro de la Comedia.

This production brings to the stage the novel that Gregorio González wrote in 1604, a work that remained lost for more than three centuries. It is directed by Luis d'Ors, and the cast is headed by the comic actor Pepe Viyuela and Sara Águeda.

The action is set in 17th-century Spain. A small travelling company, made up of a comic actor and a harp player, performs the story of Onofre, a picaro who survives cruel masters, hunger and abuse by resorting to cunning and lies. While they raise the scenery and build the spaces through which the protagonist moves, the performers narrate the episodes of his life, so that the theatre within the theatre serves to tell the story.

Like other picaros in Spanish literature, Onofre is both victim and executioner, and his journey portrays an unequal society in which social origin shapes people's fate. The adaptation underlines that corruption, appearances and the pursuit of self-interest remain recognisable today. The production is staged in the Sala Tirso de Molina of the Teatro de la Comedia, a theatre devoted mainly to staging plays.